The Red Brick Times

As most of you know I have a two story cedar sided home. There's no attic as such, just a crawlspace under the roof peak. It's pretty well ventilated (a good thing) with the biggest vent being a 24"x30" gable vent (an unusually large size) just under the peak on the rear wall of the house. A week or so ago I noticed some plastic strips on the ground in back and saw that it came from a somewhat largish hole in that vent. Uh oh. Lots of big trees in my backyard so I figured a tree limb must have blown down and caused it. Trees mean squirrels and one thing you DO NOT want is for squirrels to take up residence in your house. You'll never get rid of the little fuckers. A carpenter I know helped me order a new vent louver and cut a piece of plywood to nail over the opening until the new louver came in. We looked in the crawlspace before sealing it up, didn't see anything, so seal it we did. Here's where the plot thickens. It wasn't a tree limb that made the hole, it was a raccoon. When it woke up that night and saw it couldn't get out all hell broke loose. Banging, screaming, running around, tearing up the insulation, you name it. Me, sleep? Not likely. The racket was unbelievable. Soo... I called around and found a trapper. He set a trap Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning took a medium sized male away. This was supposed to be very good news. If it were a female that meant a whole litter was up there. I told him that even after I heard the trap spring I thought I still heard noises from another part of the attic so to humor me he reset the trap. Bingo. He just left (8pm) with number two, another male. I asked him to set yet another trap.
Posted 12:34 PM by whatley (5) comments

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Monday - 6am,
However many were still up there must have been getting pretty desperate by last night. Jeff was just here to check the trap and found it empty then noticed something laying on the floor that wasn't there before. It was the remains of one of my roof vents. Fuckers finally figured a way out. He doesn't think they'll come back but can't say for sure so left a trap baited. Sheesh, what an ordeal.

# posted by  whatley : May 21, 2007 6:30 AM
 
Yum, Yum. Eat 'em up!

# posted by  Andy : May 21, 2007 10:40 AM
 
Stainless steel roof vent animal screens.

# posted by  Andy : May 21, 2007 11:30 AM
 
My idea of an animal screen.

# posted by  whatley : May 21, 2007 12:56 PM
 
Fuck. They came back.

# posted by  whatley : May 22, 2007 4:12 PM
 
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